Magnetic-Basis Entanglement Chronoscopy in the Aether Physics Model

Magnetic-Basis Entanglement Chronoscopy in the Aether Physics Model This preprint develops a ledger-first quantification of attosecond, channel-resolved photoionization time delays in helium using the Aether Physics Model (APM) and Quantum Measurement Units (QMU). The central move is to recast the experimentally extracted group delay (Wigner--Smith / Eisenbud--Wigner--Smith delay) into a dimensionless "delay-count" that is native to QMU primitives:\[N(ε) ≡ τ F_q = 1/2φ/dε,ε ≡ E/E_C,_C ≡ m_e c^2.\]In this form, attosecond chronoscopy becomes a direct measurement of phase-slope in normalized energy, without requiring SI seconds in the main derivation. The paper then proposes a minimal "Aether-attachment" ansatz for interelectronic coherence and entanglement unfolding. The outgoing photoelectron is modeled as a compact Compton-function excitation whose finite-time linkage to the residual ion is mediated by the magnetic-charge basis and the Aether unit through a photon-action closure of the form\[phtn = A_u\, {e_emax}².\]Using Ledger One closure, written generically as\[A_u · curl = c^2,\]the photon-action atom closes directly on the QMU primitive set, motivating a magnetic-basis treatment for the attachment/exchange mechanism. A two-channel residual-ion subspace is coupled by a transient linkage\[g(t) = g_0\,e^{-t/τₑₙₜ}, t ≥ 0,\]producing a second-order, level-repulsion-like phase imprint on the channel difference. A geometric overlap argument fixes the coherence fraction as\[χ = ζ\,α,\]where α is interpreted geometrically via scale separation between the electron torus minor radius (classical radius scale rₑ) and the Bohr organization radius (α₀) through\[α² = r_e/α_0.\]With τₑₙₜ parameterized on the Bohr-period scale, the resulting contrast delay obeys a falsifiable collapse prediction:\[Δ N(ε)\,δ(ε)² ≈ constant,δ(ε) ≡ Δ E/E_C.\]Here δ(ε) is re-parameterized about a reference ε₀ for numerical stability inside a chosen data window. This "collapse test" is proposed as an immediately checkable diagnostic in channel-resolved TDSE outputs or future streaking/RABBIT experiments: if the Aether-attachment mechanism captures the dominant scaling, plotting Δ N\,δ² versus ε should yield a near-flat curve for fixed dressing conditions. The manuscript anchors the model to a published helium benchmark channel-contrast Δτ ≈ 232~as, converting this directly into a QMU normalization target Δ N ≈ 2.9× 10⁴ and deriving an explicit constraint algebra for the combined dimensionless prefactor. The narrative is connected to the author's companion APM photoelectric series on photon-action transport, coherence-window quantization, and cardioid photon expansion, which provide additional context for photon-action-mediated exchange. This work is intended as a draft scaffold for targeted falsification: it specifies which measured or simulated quantities are required (channel phases/delays, fitted δ(ε)), what plots to make (collapse and rescaling checks), and what parameter combinations are constrained by the helium benchmark.